Wednesday, 29 July 2015

Microsoft recommends that machines loaded into Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS that are running IIS, have their log rollover set to hourly.http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2014/09/19/iis-log-format-requirements-in-system-center-advisor.aspx

However, once machines are added into OMS, it's entirely possible the IIS logs are changed, new sites are rolled, etc. And there is no easy way to see if that had been done, or stay on top of it.

As a solution I throw an alert in SCOM if any site is not configured to 'hourly'.

See my TechNet wiki articlefor a howto, and a handy script to set up IIS Log rollover via PowerShell.

Monday, 20 July 2015

I published an article about displaying OMS updates in SCOM. Looks like I picked up the gold award System Centre from the Technet Wiki Ninja's. yay!http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/07/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-june-2015.aspx

Wednesday, 15 July 2015

OMS (Microsoft Operations Management Suite) pushes management pack updates automatically down to your on-premise SCOM, as part of Microsoft's rapid releases.Unfortunately there is no easy way to see when this happened, so *if* something broke - it's harder to associate with a change.